The PICTS have arrived in Angus!!
Angus Council Museums are offering Angus schools a unique opportunity to borrow the PICTS: Museums on the Move resource in 2007/08
PICTS: Museum on the Move (MoM) is a themed resources developed by National Museums Scotland (NMS) with partner local museums and target audiences.
PICTS: MoM is bigger and more complex than museum loans or handling boxes; it contains replica objects and activities to be used in groups, pairs or individual work. The resource is designed to meet the needs of the 5-14 guidelines for schools, with specific emphasis on the needs of local schools in each partner area.
PICTS: MoM has been designed to be mobile, to enable local schools to borrow it (or parts of it) for work in their own school. It is a large resource - four large and very heavy crates - more like a mini touring exhibition but can fit in the back of an estate car or small van. It will need two adults to lift, carry and assemble.
Main Themes
PICTS: MoM will communicate to target audiences main themes about the Picts:
- the Picts were defined by external sources (Romans, Bede) - e.g. their name meaning painted people but it’s unlikely this is what they called themselves
- the Picts lived and flourished in only a few specific parts of Scotland
- the Picts left a legacy of impressive stones, one of the main sources of evidence about them: from these we try to understand about their lives and activities (hunting, fighting, status, beliefs)
- the Picts gradually embraced Christianity
PICTS: MoM will use a range of Pictish symbol stones as source of inspiration for storylines, images and themes including Aberlemno I stone (depicting the Battle of Dunnichen): this stone can be seen in Aberlemno churchyard, Angus or in replica in the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street (or log on to www.scran.ac.uk)
Generic Learning Outcomes, Themes & Units
These have been developed by NMS with our partners Angus Council Museums Service and Tayside Museums Learning & Access Partnership, in consultation with local schools.
PICTS: MoM contains nine ‘units’ in total. Most of these will be numbered and labelled to assist in assembling in class or museum. There is a natural order to working around the units of PICTS: MoM, but we recognise that not every class will be able to move round in a logical sequence (classes will need to be split to enable smaller groups to work on individual units). This does mean we have tried to keep information about the Picts simple and to reinforce recurring messages.
The units are:-
- Archaeologist’s Bag: this is an optional additional element that requires no assembly but would benefit from supported Teachers’ Notes
- ‘Jigsaw’ Timeline: WHEN were the Picts?
- ‘Jigsaw’ Map: WHERE were the Picts?
- Dress like a Pict: dressing up activity
- Daily Lives: how the Picts made flour
- Daily Lives: spinning wool
- Daily Lives: making clay pots
- Symbols in Stone
- Picts in Stone
- Christian Symbols
Dates
The PICTS: MoM resource will be available on loan to schools on a strictly first-come first-served basis in the following blocks during 2009:
16th March to 27th March
27th April to 18th May
1st June to 15th June
14th September to 2nd October
19th October to 6th November
Booking PICTS: MoM
For more information or to book the PICTS: MoM resource, please contact:
Lesley Stewart, Senior Museum Assistant
T: 01307 464123
Planning Your Use of PICTS: MoM
The following documents will help teachers to plan their use of the PICTS: MoM resource:
- Preparing for the Picts (PDF 297K)
- Using the Picts (PDF 2.27MB)
- After Using the Picts (PDF 781K)
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